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WARNING: BELOW IS A RANT ABOUT SOCKS
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In other news, why can’t he buy his own fucking socks?
He = Brett!
He always complains he doesn’t have enough socks to get him through the week but he doesn’t go buy them himself. In the last three years he has bought himself ZERO pairs of socks. I don’t have any money right now, buy your own socks! I just bought you $40 worth of boxer shorts because you refused to buy them yourself and yours were getting unpleasant. Very, very unpleasant. And when you walk about the house wearing only your nasty boxers and answer the door when people come calling in those boxers its a little wrong. More than a little wrong. Now you have pleasant looking boxers with nice patterns that fit (remember, Brett just lost 25 bs, his old boxers were falling off and were really stretched out because he bought them before he gained that 25 lbs). I only have $500 left in my bank account. If you can buy yourself $50 of comics a week, your expensive little table top game models and WWII reenactment board games then you can afford to buy your own fucking socks.
GRRR!
And I’m NOT doing laundry every 6 days because you only own 6 pairs of socks. Its a waste of time, water and energy to turn the machine on for 12 socks. The only whites that have to be done at the moment are your socks. I don’t buy white socks, panties, shirts, or any other type of white clothing for myself — I don’t own any whites! Putting the laundry on to wash 12 socks is just stupid. Do it yourself! Buy them yourself!
I should take his Christmas present back and just buy him 50 or 60 pairs of socks. That’ll teach him. He needs socks, he doesn’t need a stereo. I already own a fabulous stereo he can use anytime he wants. he just wants a pretty flat one that mounts on the wall.
SOCKS! You need SOCKS!
I already had to NOT buy half of the produce I wanted so you could have your Pringles, expensive special K with chocolate cereal and other ‘snacks’ because you whine so fucking much when they’re not in the house. I WANT SALAD! I NEED VITAMINS! YOU NEED VITAMINS! YOU NEED SOCKS! YOU DON’T NEED GAMES, SPECIAL K WITH CHOCOLATE OR A STEREO! YOU NEED TO DO YOUR OWN FUCKING LAUNDRY!
Thank-you for not killing me over this rant.
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UPDATE ON BROWNIE POLL:
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The results of the poll ‘what should I dress my brownies in’
27.3% Said ‘Naked brownies’ and the runner up at 22.7% said ‘mint chocolate with smashed candy canes’
So, I left half of them naked and will dip the other half before I give them out (they had to be frozen out of necessity, they’re not being given away until the 24th!).
Everyone who receives some will get equal portions of naked vs dipped brownies. Tanks everyone!
quingawaga said,
December 20, 2007 at 10:32 am
I think a more appropriate thing to say would be, “Thank YOU for not actually killing BRETT, because you going to jail would suck even more than him not buying his own socks.”
Boys make no sense.
sassinate said,
December 20, 2007 at 11:03 am
Ha ha! that’s what my mother says too, although her exact words are “Men are stupid”
trekkingkitty said,
December 20, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Heck, you’re a better woman than me. I sure would bring that gift back and buy him a whole bunch of socks. LMAO
cat_gone_astray said,
December 20, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Boys are weird about clothes. I remember when I used to do laundry for my ex and I, and would end up washing 15 shirts, but only 7 pairs of underwear. He did change the underwear every day, but I never really noticed him wearing two shirts a day. And yet consistently that would happen. Weird….
Oh, and he did try to do the laundry every once and a while, but the first time he did it for me (because I was sick), he had to get me out of bed anyway because he couldn’t work the coin slot. He kept trying to put the money into the coin return. Then he managed to snap the underwire on my favourite bra.
So I guess what I’m saying is that it’s ok to get the boy to do his own laundry, but be careful when letting him do yours.
red_trillium said,
December 21, 2007 at 2:29 am
Dude should buy his own socks and underwear. Hmph. I’d give him socks for Christmas to be spiteful. Priorities man, necessities then toys. Or split the difference, buy a couple pairs of socks/boxers and a couple comics each week.
Good luck getting through the holidays!
sassinate said,
December 21, 2007 at 8:54 am
To be honest, I think the problem stems from the way a lot (but not all) of Canadian boys (and then later men) are raised. There is this sort of thought process in women/mothers that goes something like “he won’t buy them for himself, so I might as well do it now before he complains’ and so all through his life he’s never had to buy any underoos or socks. Little girls on the other hand are raised with the ‘you have to take care of yourself, and a guy, because they can’t possibly fend for themselves’ attitude. I’ve had a couple of my friends comment about their boyfriends/husbands/fiances not buying the necessities either. If I have a son, that boy is buying his own socks, and if he misses the toilet seat he’ll clean the floor with a toothbrush. I’m not kidding! I can’t stand cleaning the bathroom floor because somebody couldn’t aim.
Okay, I’m ranting again. I’ll be quiet. Must go get my morning coffee.
red_trillium said,
December 21, 2007 at 11:30 pm
Heh, easy to rant about, totally understandable!
Do you think it’s also a bit of a macho thing? I mean, stereotypically men aren’t well known for their shopping prowess (straight ones anyway) & might see it as something too “femmy” to be buying their own socks and underoos. Like, think Cavemanish: “me too manly to buy own socks/underoos, it imply me can’t get mate to buy them for me”.
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A thought.
sassinate said,
December 21, 2007 at 11:44 pm
Well, maybe its a macho thing with some guys, but I don’t think that is the case with Brett – he’s bought me tampons before without complaining or blinking an eye. He doesn’t ever think about buying necessities before you actually need them. If it wasn’t for me always staying on top of things we would constantly run out of toilet paper, dish soap, garbage bags, shampoo etc. I’m sure when he lived on his own before he met me that he was always running to the 24 hour grocery store to buy things late at night because he went looking for something and then ran out. As for not going to the store on the way home from work, he’ll make excuses about stores being busy and how I’m home all day. But gas costs money! Socks cost money! *sigh* I just need a job.
red_trillium said,
December 21, 2007 at 11:49 pm
LOL, ok, it’s Brett, not a macho thing. Yeah, stores are busy after work but either you go when it’s busy or you go when it’s not and it’s easier to go on the way home really.
*sigh*
Sorry I couldn’t put a job in the package I sent. Couldn’t find one just right for you.